Manual focus on GX 10.

bresail
Posted 20/08/2009 - 14:14 Link
I do not use auto focusing very often but, I am at the moment because, I do not know how to disengage the auto focus. I set up the effect that I want, shoot and the camera re-focuses for me. I scream at it but it ignores me.
Help needed please!
Rex.
johnriley
Posted 20/08/2009 - 14:26 Link
Turn the small dial on the side of the pentaprosm housing to "MF" and the job's done.
Best regards, John
scottthehat
Posted 20/08/2009 - 14:43 Link
if you have a lens with a motor built im ie swm or hsm then you will need to turn that to mf as well as the body
just keep snapping,

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pschlute
Posted 20/08/2009 - 14:47 Link
What have you set the auto-focus /manual focus wsitch to ???
bresail
Posted 20/08/2009 - 16:30 Link
So that is what that switch is for. I'd forgotten about that one.
I got the camera last year and haven't touched it until about a month ago and I must have left the manual in the hospital along with my brain.
Thanks yet again folks.
I promise that I will improve.
Regards,
Rex.
lemmy
Posted 20/08/2009 - 17:11 Link
There are an awful lot of switches and knobs on these modern cameras. Without constant use it's easy to forget exactly what some of them do.

In a similar way, after 35 years of using Nikons every day for my work, I still wrongly align the Pentax lenses each and every ****** time I go to mount them!
Oggy
Posted 20/08/2009 - 20:20 Link
scottthehat wrote:
if you have a lens with a motor built im ie swm or hsm then you will need to turn that to mf as well as the body
Since when Scott? Never heard that before and I have just tried my DA"300 and either switch disables AF.
bresail
Posted 21/08/2009 - 10:35 Link
I still remember how complicated the first affordable slr's seemed to be and I could only afford one because I was living in the far east.
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I still wrongly align the Pentax lenses each and every ****** time I go to mount them!
Is this legal?
Do you have special times for mounting them?
Lemmy, I just visited your theatre, it's great and my kind of humour.
Regards,
Rex.

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